We read in the Gospels that Our Lord fed many people with five loaves and two fishes. Speaking parabolically, we may say that the first loaf was - that we should know ourselves, what we have been everlastingly to God, and what we now are to Him. (Meister Eckhart)

We read in the Gospels that Our Lord fed many people with five loaves and two fishes. Speaking parabolically, we may say that the first loaf was - that we should know ourselves, what we have been everlastingly to God, and what we now are to Him.

Meister Eckhart

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